Winner
The Last Child by John Hart
The Last Child by John HartCall Number: Fiction H325L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780312359324
Publication Date: 2009-05-12
Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: a warm home and loving parents; a twin sister, Alyssa, with whom he shared an irreplaceable bond. He knew nothing of loss, until the day Alyssa vanished from the side of a lonely street. Now, a year later, Johnny finds himself isolated and alone, failed by the people he'd been taught since birth to trust. No one else believes that Alyssa is still alive, but Johnny is certain that she is---confident in a way that he can never fully explain. Determined to find his sister, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown. It is a desperate, terrifying search, but Johnny is not as alone as he might think. Detective Clyde Hunt has never stopped looking for Alyssa either, and he has a soft spot for Johnny. He watches over the boy and tries to keep him safe, but when Johnny uncovers a dangerous lead and vows to follow it, Hunt has no choice but to intervene.
Finalists
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Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
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Nemesis by Jo Nesbo
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The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
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The Odds by Kathleen George
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A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
A Beautiful Place to Die
A Beautiful Place to Die : a novel by Malla NunnCall Number: Fiction N972b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781416586203
Publication Date: 2009-01-06
In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, dividing a nation into black and white while supposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English. Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cuts deeper, but it's not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead that emotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to the surface.
Winner
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
The Lock Artist by Steve HamiltonCall Number: Fiction H2218L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780312380427
Publication Date: 2010-01-05
Marked by tragedy, traumatized at the age of eight, Michael, now eighteen, is no ordinary young man. Besides not uttering a single word in ten years, he discovers the one thing he can somehow do better than anyone else. Whether it's a locked door without a key, a padlock with no combination, or even an eight-hundred pound safe ... he can open them all.
Finalists
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Caught by Harlan Coben
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
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Faithful Place by Tana French
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I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
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The Queen of Patpong by TImothy Hallinan
Caught
Caught by Harlan CobenCall Number: Fiction C655c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525951582
Publication Date: 2010-03-23
Reporter Wendy is chasing down sexual predators and exposing them on national television. She's there when a prominent child advocate is arrested. He comes up missing, and the father of the victim claims to have killed him. She discovers that a group of local fathers are taking matters into their own hands, and the man she exposed may be innocent.
Caught [CD] by Harlan Coben; Carrington MacDuffie (Read by); Danny Campbell (Read by)Call Number: CD Fiction CO (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780739385227
Publication Date: 2010-03-23
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinCall Number: Fiction F834c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060594664
Publication Date: 2010-10-05
In the 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. But then Larry took a girl to a drive-in movie and she was never seen or heard from again. He never confessed . . . and was never charged.
Faithful Place
Faithful Place by Tana FrenchCall Number: Fiction F876d v.3 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780670021871
Publication Date: 2010-07-13
Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover squad, is going home whether he likes it or not.
I'd Know You Anywhere
I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura LippmanCall Number: Fiction L766i (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780061706554
Publication Date: 2010-08-17
Tells a gripping and richly textured tale of a young woman whose life dangerously entwines once again with a man on Death Row who had kidnapped her when she was a teenager
Winner
Gone by Mo Hayder
Gone [E-Book] by Mo HayderCall Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780802195982
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
Jack Caffery's new case seems like a routine carjacking until he realizes the sickening truth: The thief wasn't after the car, but the eleven-year-old girl in the back seat. And she's not the only young girl who's been taken. Meanwhile, police diver Sgt. Flea Marley is pursuing her own theory of the case, and what she finds in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel could put her in grave danger. The carjacker is always one step ahead of the Major Crime Investigation Unit, and as the chances for the victims' survival grow slimmer, Caffery and Marley race to fit the pieces together.
Finalists
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1222 by Anne Holt
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Field Gray by Philip Kerr
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The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
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The Ranger by Ace Atkins
Field Gray
Field Gray by Philip KerrCall Number: Fiction K414g v.7 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399157417
Publication Date: 2011-04-14
During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective—until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twenty-five tumultuous years, Field Gray strides across the killing fields of Europe, landing Bernie in a divided Germany at the height of the Cold War—revealing a treacherous world where the ends justify the means and no one can be trusted...
The Devotion of Suspect X
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino; Alexander O. Smith (Translator); Elye J. Alexander (Translator)Call Number: Fiction H634d (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780312375065
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
Yasuko Hanaoka thought she had escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day, the situation quickly escalates and Togashi ends up dead. Yasuko's next-door-neighbor Ishigami offers his help, not only disposing of the body, but plotting the cover-up as well.
Winner
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
Live by Night by Dennis LehaneCall Number: Fiction L522L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780060004873
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston Police captain, defies his proper upbringing and his father's strict law-and-order orthodoxy. Graduating from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the riches, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns battle for control, no one can be trusted. For men like Joe one fate seems more likely than all others, an early death.
Finalists
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All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley
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Gone Girl : a novel by Gillian Flynn
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Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman
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Sunset by Al Lamanda
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The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
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The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins
All I Did Was Shoot My Man
All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter MosleyCall Number: Fiction M912L v.4 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781594488245
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Zella Grisham never denied shooting her boyfriend. That’s not why she did eight years of hard time on a sixteen-year sentence. It’s that the shooting inadvertently led to charges of grand theft. Talk about bad luck. Leonid McGill has reasons to believe she’s innocent. But reopening the case is only serving to unsettle McGill’s private life even further—and expose a family secret that’s like a kick to the gut.
Gone Girl
Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnCall Number: FIC FLYNN GIL GO (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307588364
Publication Date: 2012-06-05
Gone Girl's toxic mix of sharp-edged wit with deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn.
Gone Girl [CD] by Gillian FlynnCall Number: CD Fiction FL (Adult Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9780307990419
Publication Date: 2012
The Gods of Gotham
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay FayeCall Number: Fiction F283g (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399158377
Publication Date: 2012-03-15
Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams are destroyed by a fire that devastates downtown Manhattan, he is left with little choice but to accept a job in the newly minted New York City Police Department. Returning exhausted from his rounds one night, Tim collides with a girl no more than ten years old… covered in blood. She claims that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of Twenty-Third Street. Timothy isn’t sure whether to believe her, but as the image of a brutal killer is slowly revealed and anti-Irish rage infects the city, the reluctant copper star is engaged in a battle that may cost him everything…
The Lost Ones
The Lost Ones (Quinn Colson #2) by Ace AtkinsCall Number: FIC ATKIN ACE C2 (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780399158766
Publication Date: 2012-05-31
Newly-elected Tibbehah County sheriff Quinn Colson investigates an old friend's gun sales when stolen military rifles are found in the possession of a Mexican drug gang, a case that is complicated by his discovery of a black market baby adoption ring.
Winner
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Ordinary Grace by William Kent KruegerCall Number: Fiction K94o (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781451645828
Publication Date: 2013-03-26
Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.
Finalists
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How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
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Sandrine's Case by Thomas H. Cook
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Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin
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The Humans by Matt Haig
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Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy
How the Light Gets In
How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Gamache #9) by Louise PennyCall Number: Fiction P416g v.9 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780312655471
Publication Date: 2013-08-27
Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn't spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city. Mystified by Myrna's reluctance to reveal her friend's name, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America, but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo.
Sandrine's Case
Sandrine's Case [Kindle] by Thomas H. CookCall Number: Kindle-0487
ISBN: 9780802126085
Publication Date: 2013-08-06
Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him. He's a meek, stuffy doctorate student, and she's a brilliant, beautiful bohemian with limitless talent and imagination. Yet on the surface their marriage seemed perfectly tranquil. Then one night Sandrine is found dead in their bed from a deadly overdose of pain medication and alcohol, and Samuel is accused of poisoning her. As the truth of their turbulent marriage comes to light, Samuel must face a town convinced of his guilt.
Standing in Another Man's Grave
Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian RankinCall Number: Fiction R211r v.18
ISBN: 9780316224581
Publication Date: 2013-01-15
For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter's disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Nina's pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere. Until she meets the newest member of the team: former Detective John Rebus.
Winner
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen KingCall Number: On Order
ISBN: 9781476754451
Publication Date: 2014-06-03
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the "perk" and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy. Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of highly unlikely allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.
Finalists
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This Dark Road to Mercy by WIley Cash
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Wolf by Mo Hayder
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The Final Silence by Stuart Neville
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Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
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Cop Town by Karin Slaughter
Saints of the Shadow Bible
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian RankinCall Number: Fiction R211r v.19 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316224550
Publication Date: 2014-01-14
Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. He is investigating a car accident when news arrives that a case from 30 years ago is being reopened. Rebus's team from those days is suspected of helping a murderer escape justice to further their own ends. Malcolm Fox, in what will be his last case as an internal affairs cop, is tasked with finding out the truth. Past and present are about to collide in shocking and murderous fashion. What does Rebus have to hide? And whose side is he really on?
Cop Town
Cop Town by Karin SlaughterCall Number: Fiction S631c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780345547491
Publication Date: 2014-06-24
Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she already suspects she's not cut out for the job as a cop. Her male uniform is too big, she can't handle a gun, and she's rapidly learning that the APD is hardly a place that welcomes women. Worse still, in the ensuing manhunt, he'll be partnered with Maggie Lawson, a cop with her own ax to grind (and a brother and uncle already on the force)--a strategy meant to isolate Kate and Maggie from the action. But the move will backfire, putting them right at the heart of it.
Winner
Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy
Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori RoyCall Number: Fiction R8884L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525955078
Publication Date: 2015-06-02
On a dark Kentucky night in 1952 exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden territory. Everyone knows Hollerans don't go near Baines, not since Joseph Carl was buried two decades before, but, armed with a silver-handled flashlight, Annie runs through her family's lavender fields toward the well on the Baines' place. At the stroke of midnight, she gazes into the water in search of her future. Not finding what she had hoped for, she turns from the well and when the body she sees there in the moonlight is discovered come morning, Annie will have much to explain and a past to account for. It was 1936, and there were seven Baine boys. That year, Annie's aunt, Juna Crowley, with her black eyes and her long blond hair, came of age. Before Juna, Joseph Carl had been the best of all the Baine brothers. But then he looked into Juna's eyes and they made him do things that cost innocent people their lives. Sheriff Irlene Fulkerson saw justice served-or did she? As the lavender harvest approaches and she comes of age as Aunt Juna did in her own time, Annie's dread mounts. Juna will come home now, to finish what she started. If Annie is to save herself, her family, and this small Kentucky town, she must prepare for Juna's return, and the revelation of what really happened all those years ago.
Finalists
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The Strangler Vine by M. J. Carter
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The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr
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Life or Death by Michael Robotham
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Canary by Duane Swierczynski
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Night Life by David C. Taylor
The Lady From Zagreb
The Lady from Zagreb by Philip KerrCall Number: Fiction K414g v.10 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399167645
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister-close confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin homicide bull, now forced to do favors for Joseph Goebbels at the Propaganda Minister's command. This time, the favor is personal. And this time, nothing is what it seems. Set down amid the killing fields of Ustashe-controlled Croatia, Bernie finds himself in a world of mindless brutality where everyone has a hidden agenda. Perfect territory for a true cynic whose instinct is to trust no one
Life or Death
Life or Death by Michael RobothamCall Number: Fiction R666L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316252058
Publication Date: 2015-03-10
Audie Palmer has spent ten years in a Texas prison after pleading guilty to a robbery in which four people died and seven million dollars went missing. During that time he has suffered repeated beatings, stabbings and threats by inmates and guards, all desperate to answer the same question: where's the money?
On the day before Audie is due to be released, he suddenly vanishes. Now everybody is searching for him - the police, FBI, gangsters and other powerful figures - but Audie isn't running to save his own life. Instead, he's trying to save someone else's.
Winner
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Before the Fall by Noah HawleyCall Number: Fiction H396b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781455561780
Publication Date: 2016-05-31
On a foggy summer night, eleven people -- ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter -- depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs -- the painter -- and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the crash and the backstories of the passengers and crew members -- including a Wall Street titan and his wife, a Texan-born party boy just in from London, a young woman questioning her path in life, and a career pilot -- the mystery surrounding the tragedy heightens. As the passengers' intrigues unravel, odd coincidences point to a conspiracy. Was it merely by dumb chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something far more sinister at work? Events soon threaten to spiral out of control in an escalating storm of media outrage and accusations. And while Scott struggles to cope with fame that borders on notoriety, the authorities scramble to salvage the truth from the wreckage.
Finalists
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The Ex by Alafair Burke
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Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman
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Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
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What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin
The Ex
The Ex by Alafair BurkeCall Number: Fiction B959e (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062390486
Publication Date: 2016-01-26
After agreeing to defend her ex-fiancé when he is arrested for a triple homicide, top criminal lawyer, Olivia Randall begins to have doubts as the evidence mounts against him.
Where It Hurts
Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel ColemanCall Number: Fiction C692m v.1 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399173035
Publication Date: 2016-01-26
Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, Gus had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray. In the course of a single deadly moment, his family is blown apart and he is transformed from a man who believes he understands everything into a man who understands nothing.
Jane Steele
Jane Steele by Lyndsay FayeCall Number: Fiction F283j (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399169496
Publication Date: 2016-03-22
A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling.
What Remains of Me
What Remains of Me by Alison GaylinCall Number: Fiction G287w (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062369857
Publication Date: 2016-02-23
A spellbinding novel of psychological suspense, set in the glamorous, wealthy world of Hollywood-a darkly imaginative and atmospheric tale of revenge and betrayal, presumed guilt and innocence lost, dirty secrets and family ties.
Winner
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica LockeCall Number: Fiction L814b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316363297
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman--have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes--and save himself in the process--before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. A rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.
Finalists
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The Dime by Kathleen Kent
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Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
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A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
Prussian Blue
Prussian Blue by Philip KerrCall Number: Fiction K414g v.12 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399177057
Publication Date: 2017-04-04
When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany's defeat in World War 2...
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah TintiCall Number: Fiction T593t (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780812989885
Publication Date: 2017-03-28
Loo is twelve when she moves back to the New England fishing village of her early youth. Her father, Hawley, finds work on the boats, while she undergoes the usual heartaches of a new kid in school. But lurking over Loo are mysteries, both of the mother who passed away, of the grandmother she's forbidden to speak to. And hurtling towards both father and daughter are the ghosts of Hawley's past. Before Loo's birth, he was a professional criminal engaged in increasingly elaborate and dangerous underworld schemes. Life on the road was harsh - Samuel Hawley took "twelve bullets" in his brutal career. The scars have healed, but there is a reckoning still to come.
Winner
Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
Down the River unto the Sea by Walter MosleyCall Number: Fiction M912do (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316509657
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and prostitutes in the city's poorest neighborhoods. The two cases intertwine, exposing a pattern of corruption and brutality wielded against black men, women, and children whose lives the law detroyed.
Finalists
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The Liar's Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard
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House Witness by Mike Lawson
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A Gambler's Jury by Victor Methos
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Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
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A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn
The Liar's Girl
The Liar's Girl [Streaming Audio] by Catherine Ryan HowardCall Number: OverDrive Audiobook
ISBN: 9781504782524
Publication Date: 2018
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College-and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city's Central Psychiatric Hospital. Freshman Alison Smith moved to the Big Smoke to enroll in St. John's and soon fell hard for Will Hurley. Her world bloomed ... and then imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the latest victim of the Canal Killer-and the Canal Killer turned out to be the boy who'd been sleeping in her bed. Alison fled to the Netherlands and, in ten years, has never once looked back. When a young woman's body is found in the Grand Canal, Garda detectives visit Will to see if he can assist them in solving what looks like a copycat killing. Instead, Will tells them he has something new to confess-but there's only one person he's prepared to confess it to. The last thing Alison wants is to be pulled back into the past she's worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, she returns to the city she hasn't set foot in for more than a decade to face the man who murdered the woman she was supposed to become. Only to discover that, until now, Will has left out the worst part of all ...
House Witness
House Witness by Mike LawsonCall Number: Fiction L4252h (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780802126665
Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Investigating the murder of his employer's illegitimate son, political fixer Joe DeMarco begins to question the guilt of a chief suspect when he realizes that someone has been interfering with the case's witnesses.
A Gambler's Jury
A Gambler's Jury by Victor MethosCall Number: Fiction M592g (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781503949041
Publication Date: 2018-02-27
Attorney Dani Rollins is bullish in the courtroom -- pushing judges and prosecutors to their limits in defense of the innocent. So when she meets Teddy Thorne, a mentally challenged teen accused of selling drugs, Dani knows she's got this in the bag. She can easily settle the case with a couple of court appearances. But when prosecutors move for an adult felony conviction, Dani suspects Teddy's being used as a pawn in a sinister game. As the case moves forward, Dani is certain the judge and district attorney's office have motivations beyond the crime -- a fair trial isn't in the cards. And when she takes on guardianship of Teddy, the case becomes personal as she fights her own demons and the government. Dani will stop at nothing to protect this innocent boy -- there's no other option. Because if she loses, both she and Teddy could lose far more than just the case.
A Treacherous Curse
A Treacherous Curse by Deanna RaybournCall Number: Fiction R265s v.3 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780451476180
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
When archeological photographer John de Morgan mysteriously vanishes with a priceless artifact, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague, Stoker Templeton-Vane, are pulled into a dangerous world of conspiracies and ancient threats. De Morgan, now married to Stoker's former wife, Caroline, was part of the Tiverton expedition, an archeological endeavor which stirred the wrath of a vengeful curse when the crew violated the tomb of an ancient Egyptian princess. Since the discovery of the sarcophagus, they have endured a string of freak accidents, sudden waves of illness, and even deaths. They wonder if it's all been an unfortunate coincidence--or if the expedition is really doomed. Rumors abound, with many convinced that de Morgan and Caroline's disappearance was staged so that they could make off with the treasure. But Veronica and Stoker are not so easily persuaded, and they race to separate the fact from the mystical and discover the truth behind the treacherous curse .
The Stranger Diaries by 
The Stranger Diaries [E-Book] by 
The River by 
Smoke and Ashes [E-Book] by 
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by 
Before She Was Helen [E-Book] by 
Before She Was Helen [streaming audiobook] by 
The Thursday Murder Club [E-Book] (Thursday Murder Club #1) by 
These Women by 
The Missing American (Emma Djan investigation #1) by 
The Distant Dead by 
Five Decembers by 
The Venice Sketchbook by 
Razorblade Tears by 
How Lucky by 
No One Will Miss Her by 
Notes on an Execution by 
Devil House by 
Like a Sister [E-Book] by 
Gangland [E-Book] by 
The Maid by 
The Maid [E-Book] by 
The Last Child by 
A Beautiful Place to Die : a novel by 
The Lock Artist by 
Caught by 
Caught [CD] by 
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by 
Faithful Place by 
I'd Know You Anywhere by 
Gone [E-Book] by 
Field Gray by 
The Devotion of Suspect X by 
Live by Night by 
All I Did Was Shoot My Man by 
Gone Girl by 
Gone Girl [CD] by 
Gone Girl [E-Book] by 
Gone Girl [Streaming audiobook by 
The Gods of Gotham by 
The Lost Ones (Quinn Colson #2) by 
Ordinary Grace by 
How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Gamache #9) by 
Sandrine's Case [Kindle] by 
Standing in Another Man's Grave by 
Mr. Mercedes by 
Mr. Mercedes [Streaming Audio] by 
Saints of the Shadow Bible by 
Cop Town by 
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